[NTLUG:Discuss] erasing ISO image from memory stick

[Ed Leach]

Dennis Kaptain wrote:
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> De: Ed Leach <ntlug at levelofdetail.com>
> Para: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Enviado: miércoles, 16 de abril, 2008 10:24:23
> Asunto: [NTLUG:Discuss] erasing ISO image from memory stick
> 
> I have an Ativa memory stick. When I plug it into the USB port it mounts 
> a free memory partition to /dev/sdb1. But it also mounts an ISO9660 
> image to /dev/scd0.
> 
> How do I get rid of the ISO image and make the space available as free 
> memory? (I have nothing on the memory stick, so I can reformat the whole 
> thing.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed
> 
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> Ed
> 
> as root: fdisk /dev/scd
> remove both partitions
> create a new partition.
> I think you want type: 'b  W95 FAT32'
> then you can format your new partition using mkdosfs.
> 
> Dennis Kaptain 

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Dennis - Thanks.

If I do "fdisk /dev/scd" (as root) I get the message "Unable to open 
/dev/scd".

If I do "fdisk /dev/scd0" it is mounted to the Gnome desktop. Then in 
fdisk it shows a size of 15 MB but does not have any partitions.

Could I do something like:

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scd0 size=1 count=15988736

to overwrite it? (That is the byte size that fdisk shows.)

















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